i was listening to the chili peppers when i was working on this. i don't know what that means...

LOVE IT

i think i'd love this on the grey

This is beautiful, though I wouldn't wear it on a shirt. I think I've mentioned being haphephopic before, so I try to avoid shirts that people will need to get close to me to read/understand. But you get a 5 anyhow.

Great concept and form!
One question and two minor suggestions:

question: What does the text above the girl (post foot ball) say?
I dont understand that frame at all.

Comments:
Might want to make it In box (out box is generally stuff done, so he is very productive, IF it was In box he would be crushed with work)

Not so sure about lighting ther cat on fire.
But I dont have suggestion on what to chage it to. I do really like concept of that frame....
I dunno, If someone had a way to get that same point across it might be good.
(I was trying for a firecracker lighting in the sub pannel one and the a exploding firecracker near the cat in sub pannel two)

Regardless, Excellent shirt. It gets a 5 with out any changes...

5$

Love the cat on fire* - don't listen to anyone else.

5$


* I'm not condoning real life animal violence

LeHan, at 11:29pm on Jan 12, 2006

i was listening to the chili peppers when i was working on this. i don't know what that means...

It means you have bad taste in music.

Doc: It says "Hollywood." And those are cameras on the right. It took me a minute, too.

I don't like the cat on fire, just because people like that don't deserve sympathy. We are supposed to feel sorry for him, right?

this is very cool.

it reminds of high school & why i loved it and hated it last year.
minus the burning of the cat tail
good job though

Within are some excellent moments, and a couple of very cute looking charachters. it really reminds me of sketcy litttle strips i used to do. however as a whole it seems little rushed and incoherent. Perhaps a couple of internal elements could b refined and stand alone as artwork.
I aslo think you could delete sections of the frame work, egthe areas not directly seperating the frames. this would air out the design, and the negative space would bring it together as awhole.
Keep it up the future looks bright.

I really like it but I think I would like it even more (and want to buy it) if it were just the isolated scene of the football player/girl/mascot/goalpost--it was my favorite. But good job overall.

the combination of these designs, especially the football player & cheerleader and the stork & baby remind me of high school... which is a good thing (for me at least). I would definately buy this shirt. love it. thumbs up, high-5.

it's perfecttttt ... 5.

this . is. cool.
you get a 5

This rocks. Awesome! 5$

Wowzer T. Bowzer! This design has a
lot going on. It's a pretty good story,
but will viewers be given enough
time by the wearer to look at it long
enough to understand it?

My summary of the story:
* 2 people enter the world at the same time
* Both kids are losers ( stupid & abusive )
* They almost cross paths but go different ways
* Both become winners ( star & productive )
* Both die at the same time and their graves
end up being the closest they ever get in this world.

I like sequential art, but the medium it's
presented on can get in the way sometimes.
I think that's the case here unless this
work gets popular somewhere else so
enough people become familiar with
it to the point of already knowing the
story at a glance.

Love the concept, took me a while to piece it together. Only change should be to make the "Hollywood" frame more obvious about her being a celebrity..

thanks for the critic. i especially thought disco's... comment was hilarious! everything else is well put. i could have changed certain things and also put more details to make it easier to understand, but in all i kept it pretty simple.

i personally don't hurt animals, unless you count in n out and fatburger. i just thought as kids we all make mistakes mine just happen to be setting a rug on fire, but for a t-shirt it looks better as a cat.

0, for lighting the cat on fire.

I'm really really loving this, but I dont quite understand the two pictures before the grave. I'd like it better if he looked elderly at the end, I guess.

LeHan-

I totally get what the goal is with the cat.
I think you could do it the same if the kid was lighting a firecracker in sub-pannel 1 and the a firecracker exploding near the cat in sub pannel two.

I think something like that could be done in keeping with the theme of shirt, just a suggestion.

Question:
Is the working guy stressed or successful? I figured you ment for stressed, butmaybe I'm missing it?

awesome. 5 and $ from me.

With flaming cat - 5
Without flaming cat - 3

Don't dilute the vision.

Beautifully conceived and drawn, with lots of energy an style. My only problem is that it's a very specifically American life story, and I'm not American, so I wouldn't wear it. That aside, a rare 4 for the excellent work.

This is a cool idea and I think other posts pretty much sum up what I was thinking - but just to be explicit:

The story and the comic strip style are good but it seems long for a shirt.
The two seens before the grave are rough - they seem "crunched" where all the other scenes have a "depth".
Football hero and the mascot my be great (even as a stand alone) but I think that the expresion on Number 7 could be sharpened to show more admiration.
The bad little girl and the report card is actually my favorite and it's a nice juxtaposition to the more inocent curiosity of lighting a cat on fire (trust me - it is a mistake that can be made).

Good stuff.

story of my life

thanks for the great critic guys. horn beck makes a good point as are the rest of you are.

i guess since everyone is talking about the cat, no one sees the irony of how he dressed up a cat for a mascot and burned by the girl (since she is going out with the jock.)

Go make a zine and get this shirt out of my face.

to LeHan :

Thanks for pointing out the irony behind
the cat and getting burned. There's no
telling how many cool things tucked
away in designs I've missed 'cuz no
one pointed them out.

maybe i'm too pessimistic... but I read it more as "no matter how popular/successful you become- you end up in the dirt at the end"

still- good idea =)

tight. i get it! $5

it doesn't mean anything.

Hahahah OH man, it took me forever to figure out the parallel story lines thing.

Yeah I'm dumb.

id on't really understand the cat on fire, but $5. beautiful.

Too complex for a shirt. I mean, I think shirt designs should be real quick and easy to read... now this one no one understands unless you pose for them.

(Nice illu, though.)

$5

to le han--great ill, but cat/burn thing is not ironic, it's called poetic justice. irony is something else. : )

awe yes, poetic justice. that's the what i'm looking for. i shouldn't have used the word irony, plus people use it too often.

cute!

i love this shirt..and i understand it completely

Very funky cool. Id buyz it :D

too much stuff

make the "hollywood" panel a little more clear and i'd buy a print of it. not a shirt though.

it's such an awesome story. very very well done.

this is a great shirt! $5

I LOVE IT. It's like a little story of two unfortunate people on a shirt. 5$, definitely :D

cute and sad. i like the concept a lot.

Awesome concept. $5

loving it...